Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B64—AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS
  • B64F—GROUND OR AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-DECK INSTALLATIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH AIRCRAFT; DESIGNING, MANUFACTURING, ASSEMBLING, CLEANING, MAINTAINING OR REPAIRING AIRCRAFT, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HANDLING, TRANSPORTING, TESTING OR INSPECTING AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • B64F1/00—Ground or aircraft-carrier-deck installations
  • B64F1/32—Ground or aircraft-carrier-deck installations for handling freight
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B64—AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS
  • B64F—GROUND OR AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-DECK INSTALLATIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH AIRCRAFT; DESIGNING, MANUFACTURING, ASSEMBLING, CLEANING, MAINTAINING OR REPAIRING AIRCRAFT, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HANDLING, TRANSPORTING, TESTING OR INSPECTING AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • B64F1/00—Ground or aircraft-carrier-deck installations
  • B64F1/36—Other airport installations
  • B64F1/368—Arrangements or installations for routing, distributing or loading baggage
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
  • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • G06Q10/00—Administration; Management
  • G06Q10/08—Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G08—SIGNALLING
  • G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
  • G08B13/00—Burglar, theft or intruder alarms
  • G08B13/22—Electrical actuation
  • G08B13/24—Electrical actuation by interference with electromagnetic field distribution
  • G08B13/2402—Electronic Article Surveillance [EAS], i.e. systems using tags for detecting removal of a tagged item from a secure area, e.g. tags for detecting shoplifting
  • G08B13/2451—Specific applications combined with EAS
  • G08B13/2462—Asset location systems combined with EAS

Definitions

• the present invention concerns a method for loading and unloading aeroplanes .
• the method is aimed at increasing security, creating traceability, making possible the verification of and obtaining documentation concerning the loading and unloading of aeroplanes.
• the present invention offers a method that significantly increases security.
• the present invention thus relates to a method for loading goods and passengers into an aeroplane, where every passenger is identified, and it is characterised in that goods at least comprising each piece of luggage that belongs to a passenger is provided with a transponder in which information bound to the identity of the passenger and, possibly, the destination of the luggage is stored, in that a communicator at the entrance of the aeroplane for luggage is caused to read the transponder on the luggage that is introduced into the aeroplane, in that a communicator at the relevant embarkation gate is caused to read the transponder on the relevant carry- on luggage in association with an electronic scanning of the passenger's ticket for boarding the aeroplane, in that the information read in each transponder is caused to be stored in a central database together with information from the scanned ticket, and in that the said information is compared by a computer connected to the said database, and in that in the case of a discrepancy in information an alarm is caused to be given.
• FIG. 1 shows schematically a communication system comprising a transponder and a communicator
• FIG. 2 shows a block diagram that gives an example of the invention.
• a method for loading goods and passengers into an aeroplane in which each passenger is identified.
• goods at least comprising each piece of luggage belonging to a passenger, is equipped with a transponder in which information bound to the identity of the passenger and the destination of the luggage is stored.
• a first transponder is programmed and attached either to or placed into the checked-in luggage.
• a second transponder is programmed and attached to or placed into each piece of carry-on luggage. "Programming" is here taken to denote that the said information is stored in a memory in the relevant transponder by means of a communicator .
• RFID Radio Frequency Identification
• communicators contain identification tags (ID-tags) and communicators.
• ID-tags Identification tags
• One known type of identification tag comprises an aerial, a modulator and a circuit for control logic in order to control the modulator.
• ID-tag is designed such that it is arranged to receive a signal transmitted from a communicator and to reflect this signal in modulated form.
• the ID-tag is applied to the object or person that is to be identified.
• the identity can be read by a communicator at a certain short distance, for example, five metres. It is also possible, depending on the design, to read and write other information into the ID-tag with the aid of the communicator, in addition to an identity.
• the relatively short range five metres for example, makes it possible to communicate with the ID-tags within a geographically limited region of communication.
• Such an RFID system is used according to one preferred embodiment of the present invention.
• another, equivalent system such as a Bluetooth system, can be used instead in which transponders and communicators communicate using the technology known as Bluetooth.
• a first communicator at the entrance of the aeroplane for luggage is, according to the invention, caused to read the said first transponder on the luggage that is loaded onto the aeroplane.
• the communicator may be located on the aeroplane or it may be located on the loading vehicle that transports luggage into the aeroplane.
• a second communicator located at the relevant passenger embarkation gate is caused to read the said second transponder on the relevant carry-on luggage in association with an electronic scanning of the passenger's ticket for boarding the aeroplane.
• scanning of the ticket comprises scanning of the identity of the passenger while this is at the same time checked against an identity document.
• each transponder is, according to the invention, caused to be stored in a central database together with the information from the scanned ticket.
• a communication unit for the identification of objects or persons is shown in Figure 1.
• the communication unit comprises a transponder 1 and a communicator in the form of a receiver/transmitter unit 2.
• the communicator 2 is arranged to transmit a query signal 3 to the transponder 1.
• the transponder is arranged to receive the query signal and thereby reflect and modulate the query signal.
• the communicator 2 is arranged to receive the reflected signal 4 and to decode its information content.
• the communicator 2 is connected to a supervisory computer system 5 of a suitable type such as cable, radio, W-Lan, GSM/GPRS/G3 or similar.
• FIG. 2 shows a block diagram that illustrates the present invention.
• a check is carried out either at a traditional check-in desk or in a check-in machine that the booking has been made. It is appropriate that in connection with the checking in a check is made against an identity document that the correct person is checking in.
• the ticket is scanned by means of a known scanner 19. The information on the ticket is passed to a database 7.
• any luggage that is to be checked in is delivered to a check-in desk.
• information is stored in the first transponder 6 at least concerning destination and information that provides the identity of the passenger.
• further information such as booking number, aeroplane identification, departure time, the home address and the temporary address of the passenger, etc., can be stored.
• the transponder provided with the information is attached to or placed into the checked-in luggage. Equivalent information is fed preferably into a transponder for each piece of carry-on luggage that the passenger has.
• transponder 9 in which information about luggage, the ticket, the flight and identification has been stored.
• Feeding in of information into each transponder takes place in association with the checking in of luggage by means of a communicator 18.
• the said transponders may contain solely an ID number, and it may not be possible to program them with an ID number.
• the information about approval, destination, etc. is retrieved from a central database at the airport.
• the ID number of the transponder is fed into the last mentioned database together with other information.
• the read ID number can thus be paired with the information desired.
• Checked-in luggage is examined at most airports using, for example, X-rays, once the luggage has been transported to a luggage-handling region. Once the luggage has been examined and approved, information to this effect is stored by means of a communicator 10 at the examination location.
• each transponder and the ticket information is transferred to a central database 7.
• a communicator 11 can read the transponder of the carry-on luggage during examination of this luggage, and the identity of the passenger can be checked against the ticket or against a transponder 9 that the passenger carries. A coupling is made at this time between the identity of the individual and the identity of the ticket and of the luggage.
• the central computer system has at this time information at least concerning which passengers have checked-in, flight information, the checked-in luggage and the carry-on luggage of the passengers, and confirmation that the luggage has been examined.
• FIDS Fluorescence Data and Destination System
• the transponder 8 of the carry-on luggage of the passengers are read by means of a communicator 12.
• the passengers' tickets are scanned by means of a known scanner 20. If the passengers carry transponders 9, these are also read.
• Ticket information and the information in the transponders is transferred to the database 7.
• the aeroplane can be identified during loading through the aeroplane having been equipped with a transponder 17 that is read by the communicator 13 at the loading entrance of the aeroplane, whereby this information is transferred to the database 7.
• the aeroplane is equipped with a transponder that is caused to be read by the said communicator or another communicator, whereafter the information read is transferred to the said database.
• the said information is compared by a computer 16 connected to the said database 7.
• a computer 16 connected to the said database 7.
• an alarm is caused to be given by means of an appropriate alarm means 14, 15.
• One discrepancy may be that luggage has not been approved, that a passenger that passes the gate has more or fewer items of luggage than the number checked-in and/or examined, that the passenger is not the one who has checked in, that luggage has been loaded onto the wrong aeroplane, etc.
• the said alarm is given at at least one location and that at this location the discrepancy is displayed on a display such that security personnel can take a decision concerning what measures are to be taken.
• an alarm is given at at least two different locations located at a large distance from each other in order to make manipulation of the alarm means more difficult.
• the alarm means is located in the control tower of the airport. This ensures that an aeroplane does not receive permission to take-off if the system has discovered a discrepancy in the information of the types described above.
• This system finally, will offer reports in order to be able to follow and to document the events that have taken place. This means that the events, at least to a certain extent, can be reconstructed in the case for which a passenger has attempted to circumvent currently valid routines.

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